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    Brain stimulation partly awakens patient after 15 years in vegetative state

    After stimulation of his vagus nerve, the patient became minimally conscious, responding to some signals from the outside world.
    by Sharon Begley Sep 25, 2017 3 minutes

    Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35-year-old Frenchman who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown hints of awareness after having key brain regions electrically stimulated, scientists reported on Monday.

    The patient was able to follow an object with his eyes, turn his head when asked to, and widened his eyes in surprise when a researcher’s head came close to his face — none of which he did in a vegetative state. Although he is far

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